Zuiho

The Zuiho was an Imperial Japanese Navy light aircraft carrier that was built at the Yokosuka Naval Arsenal in 1935 and commissioned on 27 December 1940. The ship's first battle was the Guadalcanal campaign of World War II in late 1942, and she was sunk by US Navy warplanes at the Battle of Santa Cruz, only to be repaired so that she could cover the Japanese withdrawal from the Solomon Islands. She later took part in the Battle of the Philippine Sea and the Battle of Leyte Gulf, and she was sunk in an air attack at Cape Engano on 25 October 1944, with 215 men going down with the ship and 759 being rescued.